Professional experience

Professor Dissanaike is a financial economist and holds the Adam Smith Professorship of Corporate Governance at the University. Prior to being promoted to a Chair, Gishan was a University Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and then Reader at the University. He has previously held an ESRC Research Fellowship and an Academic Fellowship of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales. Professor Dissanaike has also held a visiting faculty appointment at Cornell University.

Awards & honours

Finalist of the European Corporate Governance Institute Clinical Papers Competition, co-sponsored by the Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) and Swedish Center for Business and Policy Studies (SNS), 2004

Pilkington Prize, University of Cambridge, 2002

Iddo Sarnat Prize, awarded by the Journal of Banking and Finance and the European Finance Association, 1995

P.D. Khan Gold Medal for the best performance in Economics, University of Peradeniya, 1986

Arts Faculty Scholarship for the best performance in the Arts Faculty, University of Peradeniya, 1986

Ryde Gold Medal, Trinity College, Kandy, 1982

Selected publications

Here are a selection of Gishan Dissanaike's publications. Please see the "Selected publications" tab above for a more comprehensive list.

Dissanaike, G., Faasse, J. and Jayasekera, R. (2014) "What do equity issuances signal? A study of equity issuances in the UK before and during the financial crisis." Journal of International Money and Finance (forthcoming)

Dissanaike, G. and Le Fur, A. (2003) "On the use of the Log CAR measure in event studies." Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 30(7/8): 1165-1170 (available online in another format: see "Working Papers" section below)

Dissanaike, G. and Amel-Zadeh, A. (2007) "Venture capitalists, business angels, and performance of entrepreneurial IPOs in the UK and France: a discussion." Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 34(3/4): 529-540

Dissanaike, G., Faasse, J. and Jayasekera, R. (2014) "What do equity issuances signal? A study of equity issuances in the UK before and during the financial crisis." Journal of International Money and Finance (forthcoming)

Conference papers

Dissanaike, G. and Lim, K.H. (2005) "The sophisticated and the simple: the profitability of contrarian strategies." In: American Accounting Association 2005 Annual Meeting, 7-10 August 2005, San Francisco, CA.